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Auction archive: Lot number 65

GEE, Ernest R Early American Sporting Books 1734-1844 A Few ...

Estimate
US$3,000 - US$5,000
Price realised:
US$3,750
Auction archive: Lot number 65

GEE, Ernest R Early American Sporting Books 1734-1844 A Few ...

Estimate
US$3,000 - US$5,000
Price realised:
US$3,750
Beschreibung:

GEE, Ernest R. Early American Sporting Books 1734-1844. A Few Brief Notes . New York: The Derrydale Press, 1928. Archive housed in red quarter morocco slipcases. Comprising: ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT. 112 pages in ink in a legible hand on recto only, 2 typed pages . (A few stains.) -- [ With :] ORIGINAL CORRECTED TYPESCRIPT. 53 typed pages with extensive corrections by the author, 2 pages in a legible hand, and 7 pieces of ephemera relating to plates to be published in the book . (A few stains, punch holes on edge.) -- [ With :] ORIGINAL GALLEY PROOFS. 19 pages dated 30 October 1928 . -- [ With :] A copy of the book. 8 o (240 x 160 mm). Numerous plates and reproductions. Original cloth-backed boards. Provenance : William Mitchell Van Winkle (presentation inscription from the author, bookplate). PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY GEE on free endpaper: "Inscribed to W.M. Van Winkle at a Forester dinner celebrating the publication of the finest bibliography of Frank Forester by W.M.V.W. May 27th 1936. Ernest R. Gee." -- [ With :] Another copy of the book. 8 o (293 x 158 mm). Numerous plates and reproductions. Brown morocco gilt [by Sangorski and Sutcliffe]. Presumably one of two copies bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe for the other. The other copy is the Eugene V. Connett III copy now at Princeton. (4)
GEE, Ernest R. Early American Sporting Books 1734-1844. A Few Brief Notes . New York: The Derrydale Press, 1928. Archive housed in red quarter morocco slipcases. Comprising: ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT. 112 pages in ink in a legible hand on recto only, 2 typed pages . (A few stains.) -- [ With :] ORIGINAL CORRECTED TYPESCRIPT. 53 typed pages with extensive corrections by the author, 2 pages in a legible hand, and 7 pieces of ephemera relating to plates to be published in the book . (A few stains, punch holes on edge.) -- [ With :] ORIGINAL GALLEY PROOFS. 19 pages dated 30 October 1928 . -- [ With :] A copy of the book. 8 o (240 x 160 mm). Numerous plates and reproductions. Original cloth-backed boards. Provenance : William Mitchell Van Winkle (presentation inscription from the author, bookplate). PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY GEE on free endpaper: "Inscribed to W.M. Van Winkle at a Forester dinner celebrating the publication of the finest bibliography of Frank Forester by W.M.V.W. May 27th 1936. Ernest R. Gee." -- [ With :] Another copy of the book. 8 o (293 x 158 mm). Numerous plates and reproductions. Brown morocco gilt [by Sangorski and Sutcliffe]. Presumably one of two copies bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe for the other. The other copy is the Eugene V. Connett III copy now at Princeton. (4)

Auction archive: Lot number 65
Auction:
Datum:
7 Dec 2012
Auction house:
Christie's
7 December 2012, New York, Rockefeller Center
Beschreibung:

GEE, Ernest R. Early American Sporting Books 1734-1844. A Few Brief Notes . New York: The Derrydale Press, 1928. Archive housed in red quarter morocco slipcases. Comprising: ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT. 112 pages in ink in a legible hand on recto only, 2 typed pages . (A few stains.) -- [ With :] ORIGINAL CORRECTED TYPESCRIPT. 53 typed pages with extensive corrections by the author, 2 pages in a legible hand, and 7 pieces of ephemera relating to plates to be published in the book . (A few stains, punch holes on edge.) -- [ With :] ORIGINAL GALLEY PROOFS. 19 pages dated 30 October 1928 . -- [ With :] A copy of the book. 8 o (240 x 160 mm). Numerous plates and reproductions. Original cloth-backed boards. Provenance : William Mitchell Van Winkle (presentation inscription from the author, bookplate). PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY GEE on free endpaper: "Inscribed to W.M. Van Winkle at a Forester dinner celebrating the publication of the finest bibliography of Frank Forester by W.M.V.W. May 27th 1936. Ernest R. Gee." -- [ With :] Another copy of the book. 8 o (293 x 158 mm). Numerous plates and reproductions. Brown morocco gilt [by Sangorski and Sutcliffe]. Presumably one of two copies bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe for the other. The other copy is the Eugene V. Connett III copy now at Princeton. (4)
GEE, Ernest R. Early American Sporting Books 1734-1844. A Few Brief Notes . New York: The Derrydale Press, 1928. Archive housed in red quarter morocco slipcases. Comprising: ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT. 112 pages in ink in a legible hand on recto only, 2 typed pages . (A few stains.) -- [ With :] ORIGINAL CORRECTED TYPESCRIPT. 53 typed pages with extensive corrections by the author, 2 pages in a legible hand, and 7 pieces of ephemera relating to plates to be published in the book . (A few stains, punch holes on edge.) -- [ With :] ORIGINAL GALLEY PROOFS. 19 pages dated 30 October 1928 . -- [ With :] A copy of the book. 8 o (240 x 160 mm). Numerous plates and reproductions. Original cloth-backed boards. Provenance : William Mitchell Van Winkle (presentation inscription from the author, bookplate). PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY GEE on free endpaper: "Inscribed to W.M. Van Winkle at a Forester dinner celebrating the publication of the finest bibliography of Frank Forester by W.M.V.W. May 27th 1936. Ernest R. Gee." -- [ With :] Another copy of the book. 8 o (293 x 158 mm). Numerous plates and reproductions. Brown morocco gilt [by Sangorski and Sutcliffe]. Presumably one of two copies bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe for the other. The other copy is the Eugene V. Connett III copy now at Princeton. (4)

Auction archive: Lot number 65
Auction:
Datum:
7 Dec 2012
Auction house:
Christie's
7 December 2012, New York, Rockefeller Center
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